Swimcms : Swimming Club Website Content Management System

[tomardern]

Hello,
I have just launched this brand new swimming club website management system, and I am looking for possible swimming clubs to use it.

Basically:
Swimcms is a brand new way to update and administrate your swimming club website.It has many built in features which can only be found in custom-built, and expensive content management systems (CMS).The system allows swimming clubs to make great websites, with great features at a very affordable price. It allows swimming clubs the chance to have fantastic looking, easy to maintain and administrate, and feature packed websites, without the large price.

Features:
SwimCMS Features
There are many different features within swimcms, all built specifically for swimming club websites.

* Separate User Areas
* CSS themes
* News Feeder
* WYSIWYG Designer
* Admin Reporting
* Contact Forms
* Calendars
* Personal Times
* Squad Management
* Gala and Competition Management
* eOrdering
* Website Statistics
* Downloads
* TimeSheets
* Forums
* Contact Lists
* Message Boards
* SEO (Search Engine Optimized)
* Gala and Competition Times
* File Management System

The whole system only costs £30 per month, including VAT, this includes:
* SwimCMS System
* Full website hosting
* Domain (.co.uk)
* Email Ardress
* Full support.

More information is available on our website: www.swimcms.co.uk.

If you are interested please contact us though our website

[2.tso]

check pms

[Chris]

I'm interested in this but have no need to pay a continual hosting fee.

Any plans to release the CMS as a script only?

Chris

[tomardern]

The system is built in asp, so the hosting provider needs to be able to "run" asp pages, if your hosting company allows asp pages, then you can run SwimCMS.

You will need to pay (at the beginning) for a the acual system, which includes all updates.

For each swimming club, we create a unqiue design (theme), which suits logos, colour scheme etc.

[Chris]

The system is built in asp, so the hosting provider needs to be able to "run" asp pages, if your hosting company allows asp pages, then you can run SwimCMS.

You will need to pay (at the beginning) for a the acual system, which includes all updates.

For each swimming club, we create a unqiue design (theme), which suits logos, colour scheme etc.

Thanks Tom. What's the cost of the system only? (you can PM me if you like.)

Chris

[Knowley]

The demo link does not work.

[chris_lamb]

Do you have any examples of sites live with this system at the moment?

How do you justify the £30/month charge? A quick search shows UK based web hosting available for as little as £2.50/month with limits that would be more than adequate for pretty much any club so where does the rest go? In fact, for £30/month I can get my own Virtual Private Server which would support many club sites.

And one final question - I would guess that features like squad management and personal times require storing personal data on the server. How do you manage the security and integrity of personal data on a shared server?

Sorry I thought of another :) Your main website specified fixed font sizes which means that you can't increase the size on IE6. Do you believe this is compliant with the DDA with regard to access for all?

[Knowley]

I wonder if its based on one of the many free to use community portals with some modifications to accomodate swimming clubs. £30 a month is a lot of cash for a club to spend on a website..... IMO ;)

[swimstore]

Wouldn't see us paying £30/month, there’s loads of free CMS systems out there that would work nicely for a swimming club and as Chris says web hosting is very cheap.

That’s nearly for £400 a year your asking for at the price you could get Sportcentric to do something.

Never really found a good ASP or .net CMS apart from DNN.

[Chris]

The demo link does not work.

It says so on the front page of their website.

[tomardern]

Do you have any examples of sites live with this system at the moment?
www.snsc.org.uk

How do you justify the £30/month charge? A quick search shows UK based web hosting available for as little as £2.50/month with limits that would be more than adequate for pretty much any club so where does the rest go? In fact, for £30/month I can get my own Virtual Private Server which would support many club sites.
A £2.50 a month doesn't include the cms system, nor the domain. Most companies that offer cheap hosting are often based on Linux servers, and so cannot run asp pages, also they most do not offer database connections.
The £30 a month includes:
The CMS System
A unique Custom Built theme/template for your swimming club.
Hosting
Domain (www.yourswimmingclub.co.uk)
Emails etc.


And one final question - I would guess that features like squad management and personal times require storing personal data on the server. How do you manage the security and integrity of personal data on a shared server?

The data is stored in a database which is password protected, the database is also ran (locally) from the dedicated windows 2003 server box.

Sorry I thought of another Your main website specified fixed font sizes which means that you can't increase the size on IE6. Do you believe this is compliant with the DDA with regard to access for all?
Thank you for this, we are currently working on the problem.

I wonder if its based on one of the many free to use community portals with some modifications to accomodate swimming clubs. £30 a month is a lot of cash for a club to spend on a website..... IMO
Nope. The system is custom built, from scratch. If a swimming club wanted a web designer to design them a website which has the same features as swimcms does, it will cost the swimming club alot of money, even if the swimming club wanted a website with no interactive features, then you are still talking around the £400 mark.

[xml]

A £2.50 a month doesn't include the cms system, nor the domain. Most companies that offer cheap hosting are often based on Linux servers, and so cannot run asp pages, also they most do not offer database connections.
Obviously if you're running linux, you're going to be running something better than asp, such as a lamp stack. I pay USD $5 /month for a linux VPS with apache, mysql, or anything else I care to run on it.

http://www.snsc.org.uk/downloads.asp
your CMS doesn't seem very robust...

[tomardern]

Obviously if you're running linux, you're going to be running something better than asp, such as a lamp stack. I pay USD $5 /month for a linux VPS with apache, mysql, or anything else I care to run on it.


All the servers are Windows Server 2003, running Plesk.

[Chris]

Any news on the stand-alone price for the CMS?

Chris

[tomardern]

Chris, I have sent you a PM with Details.

[Knowley]

All the links are broken, has swimcms died?

[noeyedear]

All the links are broken, has swimcms died?

All the servers are Windows Server 2003, running Plesk.

i'm not surprised ;-)